Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Assessing Quality of Life: Clinical versus Health Policy Uses
- 2 Predicting Genetic Disability while Commodifying Health
- 3 Preventing Genetically Transmitted Disabilities while Respecting Persons with Disabilities
- 4 Disability, Ideology, and Quality of Life: A Bias in Biomedical Ethics
- 5 Values for Health States in QALYs and DALYs: Desirability versus Well-Being and Worth
- 6 Preventing the Existence of People with Disabilities
- 7 Where Is the Sin in Synecdoche? Prenatal Testing and the Parent-Child Relationship
- 8 The Social Context of Individual Choice
- 9 Disability and Health Systems Assessment
- Index
Acknowledgments
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 December 2009
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Assessing Quality of Life: Clinical versus Health Policy Uses
- 2 Predicting Genetic Disability while Commodifying Health
- 3 Preventing Genetically Transmitted Disabilities while Respecting Persons with Disabilities
- 4 Disability, Ideology, and Quality of Life: A Bias in Biomedical Ethics
- 5 Values for Health States in QALYs and DALYs: Desirability versus Well-Being and Worth
- 6 Preventing the Existence of People with Disabilities
- 7 Where Is the Sin in Synecdoche? Prenatal Testing and the Parent-Child Relationship
- 8 The Social Context of Individual Choice
- 9 Disability and Health Systems Assessment
- Index
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- Quality of Life and Human DifferenceGenetic Testing, Health Care, and Disability, pp. xi - xiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2005